[13] After an extended trial in the second half of the 2016–17 season which included four competitive matches for the under-23 team, Hutton signed a one-year professional contract with EFL Championship club Birmingham City.
[14] Together with Charlie Lakin, Hutton was a member of the Birmingham delegation that visited their new partner club, Spanish third-tier side UE Cornellà; he trained with the first team, and declared himself open to a return on loan if that were possible.
[17] Hutton was in the first-team squad that trained in Austria and Germany in July 2018, but on his return, he broke a bone in his foot during a pre-season friendly and played no more football until the new year.
[18] He helped the under-23s finish as runners-up in the Professional Development League northern section, and they might have beaten Leeds United in the play-off for the overall title had Hutton's 97th-minute curving shot that hit the crossbar gone a little lower.
[2] He replaced the injured Rhys Murphy after half an hour, and scored the second goal of a 3–1 win just after half-time when he "cut in from the left-flank before finding the bottom corner with a right-footed shot from 20 yards (18 m).
"[24] He returned to the starting eleven for the next match, and continued as a regular for the first half of the season,[2] playing on either side of the defence as well as creating goals for team-mates when he ventured forward.
Yeovil hit the woodwork three times, and came closest to scoring when Jimmy Smith's shot from Hutton's centre was adjudged not to have crossed the line, but Barnet won 2–0.
[31] He was on the bench for Stevenage's opening fixture, an EFL Cup tie at home to Portsmouth on 29 August, and came on in the second half, replacing the injured Elliott List after 79 minutes with the score 3–3.
The goal, for which he "side-footed the ball first time low, hard, and beyond goalkeeper Alex Cairns" from the edge of the penalty area, made the score 1–1; the match ended as a 2–2 draw after Swindon conceded a late equaliser.